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New Antidote for Opium
In a case of accidental poisoning by an overdose of morphia, the administration of 18 drops of Pump. Attach 4 feet of india-rubber tubing 5917. Hodgen's Simple Stomach Norwood's tincture of green hellebore was to a stomach tube, fill both with water by followed by a complete cure. The narcotic simply dipping it in the liquid, end first, then compressing the elastic tube between the nate patient that the pupils of the eyes had thumb and finger to keep the fluid from runcontracted, and the jaws had to be forced ning out, introduce the stomach tube down open to give the medicine, which was mixed the throat of the patient, lower the outer end with 2 ounces of brandy. All appearance of the elastic tube, and the contents of the of poisonous effects had vanished in an hour. stomach pour out as readily as if from an open